Show and tell has gone horribly wrong in a tiny outback town after children brought vials of liquid mercury to school, triggering a hazardous materials scare that shut down large parts of Cunnamulla.
Believing they'd found something special at the local tip, the teenagers picked up the small bottles and later took them to class.
"Thinking they'd do show and tell with the mercury, I think," Paroo Shire Council Mayor Suzette Beresford told AAP.
